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April 19, 2017 Extras

Laurence Elderbrook embarks upon a career as a ‘cricketer errant’

2 minute readPrevious instalment from Laurence Elderbrook It strikes me that if I am to become a cricketer errant, I will need a squire. I walk next door and ask to speak to Darron-with-an-O. When Darron appears, I inform him that he is my squire. We immediately depart in my motorcar. We

April 18, 2017 County cricket

Great performances from Shiv, Coad, Footitt and no-one from Warwickshire, no-one whatsoever

2 minute readScreen-grabbed Championship table. Ain’t you a bunch of lucky basts. Surrey v Lancashire Surrey remain top of the table despite not having done anything of consequence. Mark Footitt continued being worth watching by again taking five wickets, Lancashire’s Shivnarine Chanderpaul continued being a majestic agglomeration of elbows and knees, and

April 15, 2017 Extras

Roll up, roll up for our last ever Twitter round-up on Cricinfo

2 minute readIf there’s one thing we can say for our Twitter round-up column on Cricinfo, it’s that it clung on. But no more. This week’s edition is the last. Of all the cricket writing we’ve done, the Twitter round-up was the strangest. We can’t begin to explain the psychological impact of

April 13, 2017 County cricket

County Championship Round Two – not even going to pretend to pass this off as a preview

2 minute readWe had at least one dissatisfied reader last week who seemed to be labouring under the misapprehension that we might have been looking to offer “insight”. There’ll be none of that here. Surrey v Lancashire Surrey, just 22 points above the relegation zone, would do well to focus on gaining

April 12, 2017 Extras

Laurence Elderbrook finds a new way to share his gift

< 1 minute readSeveral seasons have passed and I fear that if I leave it much longer, my skills might begin to wane. I could spend another summer at my gentlemen’s club, laying wagers and sharing brandies with other Renaissance men, but there will be plenty of time for that later. Now, while

April 11, 2017 Extras

Mop-up of the day – our 2017 IPL expertise laid bare

< 1 minute readCricinfo is running an IPL quiz called Wait, which team does he play for? We can’t work out whether this is a joke about the inherently transient nature of many Twenty20 competitions or an acknowledgement that ever-changing squads are all part of the fun. We scored two out of ten,

April 10, 2017 County cricket

Mark Footitt and some other stuff: a review of the first round of the County Championship

2 minute readThe first round of the County Championship is over. Here are some of the things that happened. Hampshire beat Yorkshire This match was one for true connoisseurs of momentum in cricket. Hampshire had all the momentum when Yorkshire fell to 152-7 in their first innings, but momentum being momentum, it

April 8, 2017 County cricket

Who is Ben Coad, Yorkshire’s new strike bowler?

< 1 minute readEmbed from Getty Images Earlier this week, Ben Coad was just some dude; some dude called Ben Coad; a young bowler whose Cricinfo profile page has him down as a ‘workhorse seamer’. A couple of days into the county season and he’s Ben Coad, strike bowler. He finished the first

April 6, 2017 County cricket

A preview of the first round of County Championship matches?

2 minute readDon’t expect us to ever do this again – and not just because the competition will, by definition, be moving onto the second round of matches next week. Essex v Lancashire This is the only one anyone really cares about, because everyone supports Lancashire. That’s what our empathy tells us.

April 5, 2017 Extras

There’s a King Cricket County Championship fantasy league after all

< 1 minute readAs with so many things, we sort of half-floated the idea with no real enthusiasm and then someone else went ahead and sorted it out. Mike has set up The King Cricket CBA Cup within The Telegraph’s county fantasy league thing. CBA stands for ‘can’t be arsed’ to reflect the